Re: Packages that were held out of testing (libc6)

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:00:53PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> My question is then: why were this packages not in testing earlier, 
> since they do not depend on the newer libc6?
> For instance, the only dependancy of dash is:
> Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13)
> and the version of libc6 that has been in testing for a long time was: 
> 2.2.5-14.3

dash's dependencies weren't quite so easy on other architectures. For
instance:

  Package: dash
  Version: 0.4.10
  Architecture: alpha
  Pre-Depends: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.1-1)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]